Rooster- Flashcards for sections

A-level Dance

Describe the costumes in Little Red Rooster

Men wear black trousers, soft jazz shoes, shirt with velvet jackets and ties in varying colours

Women wear black high neck, sleeves mini dress with red panels in the skirt section, black tights and jazz shoes

Lighting for Little Red Rooster?

Neutral colour, dimmer at the edges of the stage and a large central wash to illuminate dancers.

Actions within Little Red Rooster

Rooster gestures with broken wrist in front, pecking head, wing arms, dragging steps with chest forward

Grooming gestures such as tie adjustment, slicking hair, cufflinks gestures

Dynamic in Little Red Rooster?

Movement has a slow and lethargic quality, suggestive of an afternoon watching girls go by

Use of the heavy beat at the start of the bar adds natural accent without breaking being staccato

Formation in Little Red Rooster

4 men spread around the centre stage. A soloist enters from stage right, performing in the downstage right and centre sections of the stage

Female enters, performing duets with Red and Blue roosters initiating exits, performing duet with remaining rooster initiating exit

Space in Little Red Rooster

Solo performed in bottom right quarter of the stage, inside an arc of ‘roosters’

Woman enters for upstage left through the rooster wall and initiates exits stage right for rooster

Relationships/devices used in Little Red Rooster

Direct correlation with elements of music visualisation on accents (2nd repeat of “dogs begin to bark”

Clear ‘lead rooster’ while others are back up

Female dancer changes the relationships as she cause men to leave

Repetition of key rooster/male gestures

Links to subject matter of Rooster

Masculine gestures with animalistic qualities

Culture references through leg gestures, reflecting pop stars of the 60s (e.g. Elvis, Jagger)

Female dancer appears to intrude and negatively affect the men